Brian Harry's Blog

Process for requesting TeamPlain refunds

April 6, 2007 Apr 6, 2007 04/6/07

Brian Harry

In an earlier post I described the refund program we are putting in place for people who purchased TeamPlain from devBiz just before they were acquired by Microsoft.  Refunds are available to people who purchased with 30 days before the close of the acquisition (in other words, any purchase on or after 2/26/07) if it is requested before 6...

Back by Popular Demand

April 5, 2007 Apr 5, 2007 04/5/07

Brian Harry

Due to the demand for the VSTS Web Access v2.0 preview, we have again made it available on the devBiz site here: http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/webaccess/download.aspx This is a pre-release of what will become the TFS Power Tool release of the VSTS Web Access feature.  As I've mentioned before, testing has not yet been completed on it so...

Update on Team Foundation Server Roadmap

April 5, 2007 Apr 5, 2007 04/5/07

Brian Harry

It's been about 4 months now since I published the first Team Foundation Server roadmap.  A lot has happened since then.  For one thing, we've just about completed all of the feature work (final feature checkins will be this week).  For another, we announced the acquisition of devBiz - which I knew was in the works when I wrote ...

New Forum on MSDN for Team System Web Access

April 4, 2007 Apr 4, 2007 04/4/07

Brian Harry

In the last few days, we have launched a new MSDN Forum for discussions of Team System Web Access: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1466&SiteID=1 We have redirected the forums at the devBiz site to the new forum on MSDN.  We had originally anticipated waiting a bit longer for this but we were having ...

Update on devBiz Acquisition

April 2, 2007 Apr 2, 2007 04/2/07

Brian Harry

We're about a week past the closing of the devBiz (makers of TeamPlain Web Access for VSTS) acquisition and it's been a busy week.  There's been a lot of interest and questions and people are really excited.  Clearly there have been a lot of comments on my blog and on the devBiz forums.  I wanted to give you an update on some of...

New Guidance on TFS

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Brian Harry

Check out the newly released guidance that the Patterns and Practices team has been working on for TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/03/26/vsts-guidance-project-update.aspxIt includes: Brian...

SD West and the Jolt Awards

March 23, 2007 Mar 23, 2007 03/23/07

Brian Harry

On Monday of this week I was in San Jose at the SD West conference to give a keynote.  I'm told that a couple of years ago we (Microsoft) gave a "marketing" keynote and the audience was extremely dissatisfied.  So I went in with a very different approach.  I did a talk on our experiences building TFS, a high scale enterprise ...

TFS Branching Guidance

March 22, 2007 Mar 22, 2007 03/22/07

Brian Harry

We get lots of questions about how to organize version control in TFS, particularly around branching.  We've wrtten a white paper describing branching approaches and best practices.  A lot of this is based on who we do it internally.  Jeff wrote a longer article on it than I'm planning to so I'll just point you at his blog ...

TFS 2005 & SQL Server 2005 SP2

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07

Brian Harry

I've gotten a bunch of questions lately about whether or not TFS works with SQL SP2.  I confirmed today that all of our Microsoft production instances of TFS (about 15 of them) are running SQL 2005 SP2.  So I have pretty darned solid confirmation that it works well. Just wanted you to know in case you were wondering :) Brian...